INEX is a peering exchange, where traffic is exchanged between different Internet Service Providers. Eileen confirms what we’ve seen at Blacknight, and others are reporting as well: traffic is up 25% – 35% across the board due to the extraordinary change in lifestyle brought about by social distancing practices due to COVID19. Usage patterns have changed as well: traffic which would have gone to offices during the day is now going to private homes. Last week, traffic on INEX exceeded 500GB/s for the first time.

Eileen reveals that preparations for COVID19 began early in February at INEX, as the non-profit organisation contacted its member companies to discuss their anticipated requirements, adding additional network capacity and ports.

We also spoke to Jonathan Thomas on this episode. Jonathan works as part of the Blacknight team from his home in Indiana, USA. We’ll be speaking to him from time to time about the situation where he lives.

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Conn Ó Muíneacháin works at Blacknight, Ireland's largest provider of domains and hosting. He's an award-winning radio producer, podcaster and blogger. He's an engineer as well (not the award-winning kind).
Conn produces video for Blacknight and edits Technology.ie. Labhair Gaeilge leis!

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